Mike Conway

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Blues Guitar Player (Good Rocking Sam, The Spoonbenders). Songwriter/Producer (home studio) releasing under Jumping Jackson Records

Also Tech Nerd and Durham/RTP living. UNC SILS MSIS grad, Digital Preservation, Policy-Based Data Management, Cyberinfrastructure for Science

Jumping Jackson Recordshttps://www.facebook.com/JumpingJacksonRecords/
Good Rocking Sam Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/goodrockingsamNC/
GRS Websitehttps://goodrockingsam.com/music
My Music Releaseshttps://music.youtube.com/channel/UCMx2BzvBNL63jYVD8egHQ8g
Mike ConwayJan 25, 2023
Will McKinleyJan 25, 2023

Today in 1972 — #NewZooRevue debuted in syndication.

Co-hosts "Emmy Jo" Peden and #DougMomary celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary in December!

#OnThisDay #ClassicTV #1970sTV #1970s #Nostalgia #EmilyPeden #KidsTV

Mike ConwayJan 25, 2023
Erinn Acland, PhDJan 25, 2023

Research papers increasingly refer to websites like GitHub for code, which may be a problem...

About 20% of preprints referred to GitHub in 2021. Yet, these web pages are often not archived, jeopardizing their long-term availability.

"The growing use of Git Hosting Platforms in scholarly publications points to an urgent and growing need for dedicated efforts to archive their holdings in order to preserve research code"

via https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.04895
#OpenScience #OpenSource @academicchatter

The Rise of GitHub in Scholarly Publications

The definition of scholarly content has expanded to include the data and source code that contribute to a publication. While major archiving efforts to preserve conventional scholarly content, typically in PDFs (e.g., LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico), are underway, no analogous effort has yet emerged to preserve the data and code referenced in those PDFs, particularly the scholarly code hosted online on Git Hosting Platforms (GHPs). Similarly, the Software Heritage Foundation is working to archive public source code, but there is value in archiving the issue threads, pull requests, and wikis that provide important context to the code while maintaining their original URLs. In current implementations, source code and its ephemera are not preserved, which presents a problem for scholarly projects where reproducibility matters. To understand and quantify the scope of this issue, we analyzed the use of GHP URIs in the arXiv and PMC corpora from January 2007 to December 2021. In total, there were 253,590 URIs to GitHub, SourceForge, Bitbucket, and GitLab repositories across the 2.66 million publications in the corpora. We found that GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge, and Bitbucket were collectively linked to 160 times in 2007 and 76,746 times in 2021. In 2021, one out of five publications in the arXiv corpus included a URI to GitHub. The complexity of GHPs like GitHub is not amenable to conventional Web archiving techniques. Therefore, the growing use of GHPs in scholarly publications points to an urgent and growing need for dedicated efforts to archive their holdings in order to preserve research code and its scholarly ephemera.

arXiv.org
Mike ConwayJan 5, 2023
Dan GillmorJan 5, 2023

I keep saying journalists should leave Twitter and use Mastodon, which is better for them in every way. At TechDirt I've posted a somewhat lengthy why-and-how: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/

#journalism #twitterexodus

Journalists (And Others) Should Leave Twitter. Here’s How They Can Get Started

Summary: Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter. He is also demonstrating why it is foolhardy for anyone to rely …

Techdirt
Mike ConwayJan 5, 2023
Michelle ManafyJan 5, 2023
Apple has quietly launched a catalogue of books narrated by artificial intelligence in a move that may mark the beginning of the end for human narrators. The strategy marks an attempt to upend the lucrative and fast-growing audiobook market – but it also promises to intensify scrutiny over allegations of Apple’s anti-competitive behaviour.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-audiobooks
#AI #audio #books #publishing
Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash

The Guardian
Mike ConwayJan 3, 2023
Maria PopovaJan 3, 2023
On Tolkien's birthday, the little-known children's book he wrote by hand and lovingly illustrated for his own kids https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/18/mr-bliss-tolkien-book/
Mr. Bliss: Tolkien’s Little-Known Children’s Book for His Own Kids, Lovingly Handwritten and Illustrated by the Author Himself

“‘What color?’ said Mr. Binks. ‘Bright yellow,’ said Mr. Bliss, ‘inside and out.'”

The Marginalian
Mike ConwayJan 3, 2023
L O L G O PJan 3, 2023

2023 High and Rising

RT @[email protected]

2023 begins with a bit of good news: De La Soul’s catalog will arrive on streaming services this March. https://variety.com/2023/music/news/de-la-soul-available-streaming-services-march-1235477592/

De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Coming to Streaming Services in March

The music of hip-hop pioneers De La Soul — whose galvanizing 1989 debut, “Three Feet High and Rising,” is one of the genre’s greatest albums — will finally be available on streaming ser…

Variety
Mike ConwayJan 3, 2023
While on #FreddieKing, nobody, I mean nobody, plays Hide Away correctly at a Blues Jam. Freddie plays clean and there is a lot of nuance, all gets lost in translation.
Mike ConwayJan 3, 2023
Lessons from Scott Sawyer are really improving my musicianship. I find myself now revisiting some of the most formative Blues classics...I'm in my Freddie King phase right now, his instrumentals are a blueprint for cool that you hear in Anson and Jimmie Vaughan and others! #bluesguitar
Mike ConwayDec 21, 2022
Smalljones aka Paul JonesDec 21, 2022

A cold night crosses
our path
The world appears
very large, very
round now extending
far as the moon does
It is from
the moon this cold travels
It is
the light of the moon that causes
this night reflecting distance in its own
light so coldly
(from one side of
the earth to the other)
[…]

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56811/winter-solstice-56d239a8d12bf

Winter Solstice by Hilda Morley | Poetry Foundation

A cold night crosses

Poetry Foundation
Mike ConwayDec 21, 2022
Claes de Vreese ☑️Dec 21, 2022

Yes, #twitter changed research communication. Yes, #pandemictwitter enabled community building and knowledge exchange.

But #MuskTwitter is without solid polices or accountability, it is explicitly anti-science and anti-scientists. Therefore it is time to try something new. Such as #mastodon

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04506-6

Twitter changed science — what happens now it’s in turmoil?

The microblogging platform has transformed research communication, but its future is in doubt.